Washington, May 28 (RHC)-- U.S. President Barack Obama has announced the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan will continue until the end of 2016. On Tuesday, Obama said that the United States will maintain nearly 10,000 troops in Afghanistan after its formal combat mission concludes at the end of this year. The United States will eventually withdraw troops until only a small residual force remains after 2016.... More
Santa Barbara, May 28 (RHC)-- Thousands of people gathered at the University of California-Santa Barbara yesterday during a day of mourning for the victims of last Friday’s shooting and stabbing rampage. ... More
Winston-Salem, May 28 (RHC)-- In the United States, African-American author and poet Maya Angelou has died at age 86 in North Carolina, local media reported on Wednesday, citing her agent and a local official.... More
Bogotá, May 26 (RHC) – President Juan Manuel Santos and ultra-conservative Oscar Zuluaga will compete in a run-off vote following Colombia's presidential election Sunday, with peace talks with FARC rebels in Havana as the central issue.... More
Moscow, May 26 (RHC)-- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has expressed Moscow's readiness to have dialog with Ukraine’s newly-elected president, Petro Poroshenko. The top Russian diplomat, however, warned Kiev that pursuing its military operations against pro-Moscow protesters in the country’s eastern regions was a “colossal mistake.”... More
Tehran, May 26 (RHC) – The Iran-Ecuador parliamentary friendship group presided by Hamid Reza Fouladgar left Tehran for Quito Monday morning.... More
New Delhi, May 26 (RHC)-- At least 40 people have been killed when an express train crashed into a parked freight train in north India. According to authorities, the express passenger train was traveling at high speed and slammed into the cargo train sitting on the tracks near a railway station in the state of Uttar Pradesh on Monday.... More
Brasilia, May 24 (RHC-MERCOPRESS) -- Brazil has reaffirmed its support for Argentina's sovereignty rights over the Malvinas and other South Atlantic islands and surrounding maritime spaces, this according to Daniel Filmus, head of the Malvinas Islands affairs desk.... More
Santiago, May 24 (RHC-NNN) -- Chile, one of a handful of the world's countries that outlaws abortion in all cases, will debate a bill this year that seeks to relax the ban in certain circumstances, a government spokesman announced. ... More
Mogadishu, May 24 (RHC)-- At least ten people have been killed after armed assailants carried out an attack on Somalia's parliament building in Mogadishu. Police say the assailants detonated two bombs as they tried to break into the parliament compound in the capital on Saturday.... More
Washington, May 24 (RHC)-- Dozens of people have staged a protest outside the White House in Washington, DC, calling on U.S. President Barack Obama to fulfill his promise to shut down the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison.... More
Quito, May 24 (RHC-Agencies)-- Ecuador’s Environment Minister Lorena Tapia has awarded the state oil company Petroamazonas an environmental licence to exploit the Tiputini and Tambococha fields in the country's eastern Amazon region.... More
Washington, May 24 (RHC)-- U.S. President Barack Obama is "concerned and angry" over allegations that dozens of veterans may have died waiting for appointments at a Phoenix veterans hospital, according to White House press secretary Jay Carney.... More
Tehran, May 24 (RHC)-- The next round of nuclear negotiations between Iran and permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) may be held in mid-June, says an informed Iranian source.... More
Brasilia, May 23 (PL-RHC) -- Brazilian President Dilma Roussef has regained people's backing over the past few weeks with 40 percent of voter intention, which would apparently secure her re-election in a first round on October 5th.... More
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